While most pruning work is done in the dormant season, these plants rely on a mid-summer trim to keep them healthy and ensure ...

C atch a waft of orange-blossom fragrance from these mock orange varieties and it will stop you in your tracks. One of the ...

Q: My mother taught me everything there is to know about plants and trees and how to take care of them properly. She is a walking encyclopedia of the outdoors. While visiting her yesterday I saw a ...

Mock Orange, Philadelphus, is an old-fashioned, fragrant, spring-blooming shrub. It’s large — it can grow to nine feet — easy-to-grow and produces thousands of blooms that smell like orange ...

A. Mock orange, Philadelphus spp., is a large shrub that flowers April-May. Since the flower buds are produced on the previous year's growth, it's best to prune after the flowering period. Remove ...

Mock orange plants appear regularly in nurseries as well as big box stores here in Kona. Watch for them and be sure to check the botanical name of the plant you buy if you want the plant species ...

Since mock orange plants are deciduous, and since they’re not much to look at when they’re not blooming, it’s usually best to tuck them back into evergreen settings where they can show off ...

A. Mock orange (Philadelphus species) bloom on old wood (the growth it put on this past season), and as such, should not be pruned until immediately after it blooms next spring. At that time, you ...

Award-winning garden writer Carol Stocker takes readers' questions about mock orange and trimming lilacs. Get more expert advice at realestate.boston.com.

A: That happens a lot to mock orange, which is a very fragrant spring-blooming shrub when it blooms. Ive got one doing the same lazy thing. I also tried a rejuvenation pruning two years ago, which ...